EHR Native AI: Epic and Oracle Build Inward

• Epic's Agent Factory runs on Cosmos, its dataset of hundreds of millions of patient records
• Oracle Health's Clinical AI Agent cut physician documentation time 37% at AtlantiCare
• MyChart Central decouples the patient experience from any single health system
• Memorial Healthcare is first live with Epic's Rover Desktop on Zebra Phones
• Oracle launched a new AI powered patient portal and an embedded AI workflow demo

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Clinical AI Governance and Agent Economics

• Agents multiply AI consumption per task, now billed as a per million token charge
• AI agent development cycles outpace governance built for packaged software updates
• Radiology AI now needs named ownership, usage monitoring, and a scale or pause plan
• Stripe bought OpenRouter for $7B+, up from a $1.3B Series B, signaling gateway value
• Healthcare AI agents are shifting first into low risk tasks like labs and imaging

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Ambient AI and Patient Facing Tools

• Sutter Health is first to put its AI assistant, Ask Emmie, inside MyChart for patients
• Ambient scribe uptake tracks how ready the note is at the end of the encounter
• Verily Me's symptom assessment agent was tested on 800 encounters, published in JMIR
• Google's AMIE matched primary care physicians across 100 scenarios, 300 consultations
• Patients interpreting their own lab results via AI signals a shift toward sovereignty

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Interoperability, Data Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity

• Hospitals generate 50 petabytes of data a year, yet only 3% gets analyzed, per WEF
• A running vendor list tracks HIPAA BAAs offered below enterprise pricing tiers
• Oracle published a GenAI control program guide built for HIPAA compliance
• Deloitte urges zero trust, pre authorized playbooks, and OT segmentation for AI risk
• Siemens Healthineers opened its 7th SHIFT Innovation Center, in Bratislava, on cyber
• University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy refused a 7 figure LockBit ransom demand

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Interoperability, Data Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity

• Hospitals generate 50 petabytes of data a year, yet only 3% gets analyzed, per WEF
• A running vendor list tracks HIPAA BAAs offered below enterprise pricing tiers
• Oracle published a GenAI control program guide built for HIPAA compliance
• Deloitte urges zero trust, pre authorized playbooks, and OT segmentation for AI risk
• Siemens Healthineers opened its 7th SHIFT Innovation Center, in Bratislava, on cyber
• University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy refused a 7 figure LockBit ransom demand

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Diagnostics, Genomics, and Drug Discovery

• A new multimodal oncology model unifies pathology, multiomics, and patient trajectories
• insitro's causal AI surfaced 30x more genetic associations than staging alone in MASH
• AI supported mammography found 12% fewer interval cancers in a first of its kind trial
• A 12,635 atom protein was modeled on a quantum computer, the largest run yet
• Claims that AI cures most disease in 5 to 10 years drop the original 2024 caveat
• GeneDx brought Exome to Genome Reflex ordering to Epic Aura this August

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Virtual Care and Access

• Virtual primary care is built to meet patients where they are, Teladoc argues
• Teladoc's Navajo Nation work saved $188,000 and lifted mental health visits 269%
• Teladoc Health presents telestroke solutions at the German Stroke Congress, September 10 to 12
• Teladoc One turns connected data streams into more personalized, coordinated care
• Earlier diagnosis and faster decisions matter more than added care capacity alone
• Denmark has no funded national reimbursement pathway for medtech or digital health

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Industry Gatherings

• The Oracle Health and Life Sciences Summit runs in Orlando, September 22 to 24
• A Paris Nature Conference convenes 28 experts, including 2 Nobel laureates, September 8 to 10
• A KI Navigator 2026 session in Nuremberg covers regulated digital health with AI agents
• Siemens Healthineers' SHIFT Accelerator now partners with the Saudi Ministry of Health
• A 17 leader interview series became a long form article on unsolved cardiovascular problems

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Thanks to Harry Freedman, Matus Lelko, Scott Sale, Ben Wallace, David Able, Lisa Mattson, Minal Shah, Muhammad Hadi, Phil Baldacci, Joshua Liu, Christian Hein, Spyridon Gkikas Panousis, Gilles Frydman, Larry Trotter II, Lloyd Price, Yana Ankudinova, Charles Hummel, Alana Friedman, Amira Romani, Ján Ščamba, Trevor Berceau, H Haider, James Fellows, Justin Roberts, Karol Stuart T, Kirsten Grey, Mike Rapp, Mohammad Ghazi, Narendra Gogna, Vignesh Shetty, Miriam Vega Ruiz, Lisa Gurry, Jamie Church, Dan LeVan, Dr Cristina Cifuentes, Ezra Cohen, Michael Radwin, Yossi Matias, Jay B., Pooja A. Patel, Daphne Koller, Jordan Burgin, Daniel John, Dr. Ankit Singh, Jackie Gerhart, Sebastian von Lovenberg, Seema Verma, Tim Fitzpatrick, Daniela Nippraschk, and Pedro Ferreira, and everyone else who contributed insights to this edition. Find the full list of posts and voices on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-linkedin-cw-34-35-health-tech-thomas-allgeyer-rzz7f/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BXPEQSchwRe2CMoaHZQiT6A%3D%3D